New 2015 FRC Controller from National Instruments

Blog Date:

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 13:45

NI will be releasing details about the 2015 FRC controller at their NI Week conference in August… but they’re excited about how well it’s all coming together. They even shared this photo of the bare PCB, hot off the press, with us. See anything interesting?

Mr. Frank, i was reading the NI website that you linked and i got 1 question: the website talks only about programming in Labview, but nothing about C++ or java. Will we be able to program "Athena" in C++???

The layout suggests this is no longer a back plane type form factor with modules (as was cRIO). Observing the I/O pins, looks like fewer connection points - leading to a hope of more bus type connectivity will be in play - SPI, I2C and CAN ...

Not that our team is wondering if the new system will work with older systems, Our team is having trouble connecting to last years bot, I was just wondering if the new driver station is backwards compatible?